The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09

had the sheriff and the police watch
ing every night, but they couldn't
find him. They watched around our
premises and the cabin where Mary
lived, but all in vain. So one day
the Nirginian came to me and said
"Let me sell Anderson to you "
"Why, he is runaway said |. "\Nell
maybe he will come home when YOU
buy him." he said. But | didn't
want Anderson. didn't like him
much, and the war had begun and
We might get whipped and lose our
negroes, and as didn't know wheth-
er Anderson would come to me or
not wouldn't buy him in the woods.
But Mary kept begging your mother
about Anderson, and your mother got
sorry for her and finally asked me
straight out to buy him for Mary's
sake. So | bought him and that
evening at the supper table ! said:
"Mary, the sheriff thinks you know
where Anderson is and that you are
feeding him somewhere" Mary held
up her hands in horror. "Me feedin'
Anderson! ciar to de Lord, master,
don't know no mo- about Anderson
dan you does; | haint see Anderson
nor hear tell of Anderson in tree
month"; And as she walked out she
muttered her Indignation at the idea
Of her feedin' Anderson.
When she came in again | said:
"Mary, have bought Anderson this
evening, and now he belongs to me.
If you can get him any word that !
have bought him maybe he will
come home and not be laying out in
swanps and thickets.'
Mary's eyes stretched wide and
her mouth too as she said: "Bless
de Lord, master, is you bought An
derson? | knows you Is, for you
amt never fool me.' And she ran
out of the house in Il hurry az we
supposed, to tell Tip and the other
servants, and in about ten minutes
she came back with Anderson, and
with an air of triumph said to him:
"Now, ! tell you so-dare is your
master.' Anderson grinned a big |
Ia, |, ,-fI Ia N
buy me If lay out long enuf.' The
children found out afterwards that
he had been hid under the fodder in
my stable loft, and Mary had been
feeding him. He was fat and sleek
and blacker than ever Shade
bleaches Il white man, but it tlackens
i negro.
Then told these neas'ey children
about MY going TO Boston with my
father and mother and brother when
| was only eight years old. How we
took passage in a sail vessel from
ana were out forty days at
sea, and had awful storms, and at
last were ran into by another vessel
in a fog rs we neared the harlor, aud
how our own vessel went down, and
the passengers all had to get aboard
the other vessel, and how my mother
would not consent to come home by
sea, and my father had TO buy ear
riage and two black mares, and also
bought II black pony for my brother
md me to ride on, and how my fa-
hers sister came home with us and
Mr.. Maltbie, wild was his sthbolnate,
md so there were four in the carriage
md two boys on the pony and we
.ame all the way to Georgia and it
,ook US over two months, and we
levet crossed a railroad nor saw one,
or there was not one to cross, and
low fhad to- tide behind most Of the !,
ime, and one day as we saw so''ie ,
Wild grapes up in a vine over our I
reads Iiiy brother got ME to stand up
N the p6nys back so as to reach
hem, ind as swung up to the vine
,e rode off'and left me hanging there,
nd got mad and cried and waited
or the carriage to COME up and told
in him, yes did, and then they let a
nc ride I'm tile carriage until ! got h
'ver MY pOuts:
Then I told these ltieasley children
nat my good father was dead and
nv dear mother was dead, and my
was dead and so was my
unit and Mr.. Maltbte and the two
lares and the pony, and the carriage
,as worn out and gone, aid ] only 4
,as left. Then they put tlieir meas.
" arms around MY old neck and
issed me 80 lovingly that ! WAS glad